MAI CHAU HOMESTAY TREKKING 2 DAYS

Mai Chau is a community in Hoa Binh province, approximately 135 km from Hanoi and 60 km from Hoa Binh Town. Mai Chau is famous for the stunning panorama surrounded by green valley’s with spectacular karst scenery, for rice farm terraces surrounding stilt houses. Nevertheless, the most impressive is the culture of the ethnic minority Thai people who are of very different feature to Vietnamese in language, dress, customs, etiquette, singular blend of belief, worship and myth.

The trip to Mai Chau is then a joy of trekking along the hills and streams watching over the huge flat rice fields below, or getting across the terraced farm next to the villages. The enjoy also comes with interaction with local White Thai people, living in their stilt houses, taste their local food and experience their beautifully traditional dance.

OVERVIEW

The tour is considered adventure with trekking at both days. Then walking shoes, and hats are recommended on this tour. The enjoy comes from both living in nature and meeting people. There are a lot opportunities for camera shot on Thai people costumes among the green nature, as well as the beautiful rice fields that could not be found anywhere else in the world.

Further local culture approaches can be a visit to local houses among trekking to see how they make their fabrics, an experience of Thai Music at night, or a rice whisky taste with home secret recipes.

The tour includes of transportation, guide, entrance fees, and homestay. The homestay is not so basic as it is at a well prepared corner with Western toilette and soft mattress with mosquito net. The meals are all included as this should be previous arranged.

The duration of the tour is approximately two days one night. This means it lasts from 8:00 AM to around 6:00 PM of the following day.

Meet Thai people in their houses, emerge yourself among Thai minority culture.

Experience the music night with Thai dance

Drink homemade whisky ( secret recipes) with long straws called Ruou Can

ITINERARY

DAY 1: HANOI – LAC VILLAGE

Be welcomed by your tour guide at 8:00 AM in your hotel. Take a drive around threes hour and a half heading to the middle highland of the North. Have some stops en route for stretching the les, photos of spectacular views over the mountains. Upon arrival to Lac Village in Mai Chau community, be introduced to a White Thai family where we stay overnight in their stilt house.

Have lunch cooked by the family, get refreshed and take a two hour and a half trek to three White Thai villages of La Poon, La Thia and Poom Coong. This trekking is mainly to get across rice farms, to visit local houses with their interior look, daily living understanding and their fabric weaving style. In the late afternoon, return to Lac Village for refreshment and overnight at our host.

There is an option that we can enjoy the performance of the minority dances and drink Ruou Can at night.

DAY 2: LAC VILLAGE – HANOI

The trekking today is still with view of rice farms, but also more to spectacular scenery of mountain, forest and waterfalls. The a two hour trekking in the morning with the cool and fresh air of the morning is to Van Village, one of the most beautiful villages in Mai Chau area.

Return to Hanoi afterward with late lunch on the way.

ACCOMODATION

MAI CHAU HOMESTAY

The extended corner on the house of Thai minority people in a stilt house. You ‘ve got space there with soft mattress, mosquito net, sharing flush toilette, local food. Conversation is via tour guide as the hosts could usually not be able to speak English.

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